Backup and Restore Overview
Database backup and restore operations in MarkLogic Server are distributed over all of the data nodes in a cluster (that is, all of the nodes that contain forests), and provide consistent database-level backups and restores.
The directory you specify for a backup or restore operation must exist on each data node associated with the database (it can be either a shared or unshared directory). For example, if you have a data node on Host1 with forests F1 and F2, and another data node on Host2 with forests F3 and F4, then the backup directory you specify must exist on both Host1 and Host2. The following figure shows such a configuration, where the Schemas and Security databases have forests F5 and F6 respectively, and they are also attached to Host1.
